West Bengal is an Indian state in the eastern part of the country, and the only one in India with an incumbent woman Chief Minister — Mamata Banerjee.
The region, which was the political heart of the Bengal Presidency during British Rule, was divided into East and West Bengal in 1947. Bengal was a hotbed of the Indian Independence movement and has remained one of the country’s great artistic and intellectual centres, being home to Nobel laureates Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen and Abhijit Banerjee as well as freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose and Oscar winner Satyajit Ray.
Geographically, the state is happily situated with the Himalayas in the north and the Sundarbans in the south. It shares a roughly 2,200-sqkm border with Bangladesh (East Bengal at the time of Partition).
For the first 30 years, the Congress ruled Bengal, but made way for Left domination for the next 34 years. In 2011, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress — a breakaway from the Congress — came to power.
Why is Sagarika Ghose not writing on this? The verbal acrobatics to justify this corruption will be fun to read. Why send stooges?
Please point out that in a recently released/leaked tape apparently held by CBI, 3 TMC ministers were heard discussing how big the money making opportunity is from this scam, who can get how many candidates who are willing to pay, how to distribute the cut money etc. In the 72 minutes conversation, Abhishek Banerjee was named 71 times, with 1 minister saying Abhishek will be happy with 15 Cr as his share. This has been reported several times by Anandbazaar Patrika.
I wonder why there is no action against Abhishek Banerjee yet by CBI or the center? It’s time to go for Mamata’s neck too. That woman, her kin and her party has done so much damage to the state that even the tyrannical cpm govt of yesteryears will be ashamed and seem holder at this point.
Mamata and TMC are also responsible for the death of Abhaya. Your own reporting at the time was disappointing to say the least, Monideepa. Where else has state appointed goons had the audacity to barge in, harm the modesty of an on duty doctor right in the heart of Kolkata. The whole of Bengal needs to be ashamed for their/our inability to force this govt out. Before that was Kamduni which too was hushed up by the govt. Mamata deserves nothing but extreme personal and physical pain when her time comes. Along with her, her whole family all partymen and lawyers such as Kapil Sibal should be crucified and left to rot on stakes by the roadside.
Why is Ms. Monideepa Banerjie invoking the Vyapam scam now?
Perhaps to defend Ms. Mamata Banerjee and her utterly corrupt administration. A lame attempt at telling people that corruption has happened in BJP ruled states too and therefore Ms. Mamata Banerjee must not be held responsible for the SSC mess.
Fact of the matter remains that the West Bengal government actively worked to cover up the scam and therefore all OMR sheets were destroyed. All relevant records were destroyed so that no one can figure out who the genuinely qualified candidates were and who got in through bribes.
Ms. Monideepa’s fangirling over Mamata Banerjee will not be anough to cover up the issue. The TMC administration is currently the most corrupt one in India. There is simply no doubt about this.